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[Taz]

Morning all, not much change today and it's really annoying me

 

[abz]

poor taz. keep up on your mega medicine and you'll feel better in no time.

i've actually been kicking around on the forums for nearly an hour but i kept working up the list from the bottom and this one kept moving to the top.. in the end i've skipped all the others and come to say good morning

i did manage to eat all that quorn and have gained half a lb this morning, ha. so i'm putting it down to that. it's official weigh in tomorrow morning so it had better be bloody gone by then!! i will be most peeved if not. cross your fingers for me though chaps. it's a week tomorrow that i see my cdc again and i want the majority of it gone before then!! i was even considering doing ss but after what it did to me last time i don't think i can bring myself to do it... so i'll steer clear for now...

want to see my newly preggers best mate but she seems to be working all the days i'm off lately which is really irritating. might have to see if she's free one evening..

abz xx

 

[Taz]

Noooo don't do SS again!

 

[Gemstone]

No no and positively NO abz. You're doing fine - your body has to have a little adjustment time back from holiday and you know you were a nightmare when you were ss-ing. All those hormones running wild (and we won't mention the post about the pants and the disabled toilets - whoops, I just did). Don't worry about the pound, it'll be fine. x

 

[abz]

i know. i just want rid of it NOW!! ha. it's ok. i'm not going hungry. and on 1000 cals you'd think i'd be climbing the walls. so that's something at least. i'm probably having a bit more because i'm not being incredibly restrictive on things like mushrooms and brocolli. i'm not having much, but 6tblspoons of veg in a whole day seems too little if you are eating to me. especially when you put it on a plate. for dinner it ends up being two mushrooms and a floret of brocolli... so i do add the odd extra mushroom. it's the water i'm fighting against. i'm finding it so hard to drink that much!! but i've had half a litre so far. think i'm going to go and watch a chick flick and drink some water and make myself some really nice coffee as a treat

abz xx

 

[Gemstone]

It sound drastic to me but then I'm not really in favour of vlcds. In my opinion (for what it's worth (?)) it's quite worrying to put your body in starvation mode and can be counter-productive if your body starts to store fat against "famine" as it's programed to do. OK, that's it - opinionated moment over. x

 

[Taz]

I'm of the same opinion Gem but each to their own iykwim!

 

[Gemstone]

Absolutely - I don't expect everyone to agree with my opinion - It's just that - my opinion x

 

[elle2585]

hey everyone. I have a day off today, yay! good job too, as im not feeling well. I ate way too much on my birthday, had tapas in the end, and then indian the night after when we were entertaining a client. initial thoughts were, oh dear, but then i weighed yesterday and i was 13st 5lbs. we'll see what happens.

everyone ok? xxx

 

[Gemstone]

What's that I hear - Elli Delli Belli? x

 

[elle2585]

hahahahaha indeed gem. saturday was a bit fun heeheehee xxx

 

[Gemstone]

Poor you - Bet the scales weren't as bad as they could have been x

 

[abz]

elle!! good to have you back

well i am currently trying to get in touch with the orthodontics department as a year ago they promised me braces in about six months and i never heard back from them. i know it is nhs stuff so i need to be patient but they are the prelude to an operation on my jaw and i'm getting married in 10 months and then i want a baby. how can i have an operation that changes the way i look with a young baby. they won't know who the hell i am? so i don't know what to do really. either hopefully get it done quickly and wait to get preggers or get it done shortly after baby and hope for the best? i don't know. what do you chaps think? first step though. getting the sodding braces!!

abz xx

 

[Gemstone]

Don't know what the op is for so can't really have a firm opinion. On the face of it (oh haha, didn't see that one coming but I'll leave it there to give you a laugh abz) I would say give nhs a kick up the bum and get the ball rolling. Have it all over and done with first, before there is a baby to think of (not easy being out of sorts with a baby in tow and even young babies recognise faces). Don't worry too much though if it doesn't work out cos babies are also resillient. It's just so much easier to get it all over x

 

[abz]

well i finally managed to get in touch with them. it's orthognathic surgery. my lower jaw clenches in front of my upper jaw, so my profile looks fairly flat. but i don't care about that. i look ok. it's more that i can't bite things easily because my upper and lower teeth only meet at the back molars. and my top teeth are sore and feel loose sometimes and when i asked the dentist he said it was because i have to 'tear' my food rather than bite it off. eating apples is a nightmare!! ha. so that's when i decided to have it done. i was prepped to have it done when i was 17 and my boyfriend at the time persuaded me not to have it done. he has since apologised profusely (no long my bf either but we were together for over six years, ha) as i am now back to square one, need braces all over again etc. saying that, in the last eight years the treatment they would have given me has changed dramatically and both my jaws and all my teeth will look absolutely perfect by the end of it. unfortunatley i am still 18th on the waiting list and the new member of staff they were supposed to be getting to alleviate the workload is on maternity leave (ironic or what) so i just have to wait. the woman on the phone was lovely and told me that it was unfortunate but sadly there was nothing they could do. hopefully when she returned to work she would take a chunk off the waiting list. she said she would like to tell me i'd be seen in the next six months but she couldn't even guarantee that. and if i hadn't heard by easter to ring back and hopefully they would be able to update me. but at least i won't have gappy teeth for my wedding they have to create gaps to put fake teeth in (i had baby teeth with no replacement adult teeth) and i didn't want to look like i had missing teeth on my wedding pics, ha. i don't look like that now. i just have a bit gap in between my two front teeth. i'm making it sound like i look gummy!! but i have loads of space at the back.

right. after that essay i hope things seem a bit more clear? looks like i'll have braces for my wedding though. but i can cope with that

abz xx

 

[abz]

oh, i forgot to say. the reason i'll look different is because my top jaw will move in front of my bottom one. so they break your top jaw and move it forwards. so it changes the line of your nose. i won't look so different that you won't recognise me at all. i suppose i'll look like the sister i never had if that makes sense? i will look more different from the side. but that's the reason i'm worried about doing it with a small child that won't understand what the hell just happened to mummy!!

abz xx

 

[Taz]

Sounds like you have the same thing as me. I have got TMJD which causes really bad headaches when my jaw locks or clenches and it clicks really loudly. My teeth are aligned at the back but not at the front and I'm not allowed to eat apples unless they are cut into pieces and I can't eat nuts!

 

[abz]

have you had any kind of treatment for it taz? i've not been told not to eat anything. just that the only way to stop my teeth hurting is not to bite with them... until they are aligning properly that is. that's really helpful that is!! ha.

abz xx

 

[Taz]

I was given a gum sheild to wear at night to stop my teeth clenching while I am asleep but I haven't used it! The consultant wanted to put me on diazepam to relax my jaw but I can't take that with my job so I told him no. I don't have an NHS dentist but I will ask about options next time I see my guy. I have heard about the op and it doesn't sound nice

 

[abz]

why haven't you used the gum shield? seems like a good idea...